7 years ago, the UAE’s Foreign Minister issued a warning to the West.

His words now sound prophetic.

A better way is possible

Blair understood our enemies - why don't we? It's 25 years next week since the Chicago Speech. There's a lot in it that is still relevant. (My latest column for The Times and The Sunday Times) thetimes.co.uk/article/c5f717…

AI will kill most AI startups, the opportunity is in energy. The internet of energy is about to happen.

India looking to get in the game. 10,000 GPUs for startups and researchers

Need to move faster on our own compute ambitions

m.economictimes.com/tech/technolog…

FUTURE OF BRITAIN 2024.

Reimagining the state. It’s going to be good.

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harry law (kernel trick fan account) Benedict Cooney

More progress towards a new model of medicine in which a wide range of data could be combined through AI to help assess an individual’s health

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Anduril is doing unbelievable things.

As we are stuck debating whether we spend 2.5% of GDP, others are moving ahead with building new technological capabilities that will redefine defence

Couldn't agree more. Targets are a) wishful thinking and b) and actually lead to short term cuts in carbon emissions that make longer term decarbonisation more difficult. We need a systems-thinking approach to decarbonisation that goes deeper than near-term targets.

There is a brewing storm in the Sahel. We need to see development and security as one and the same

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Very interesting to see this data (h/t Peter Lauten Barclays Bank) as we're nearing the 3y anniversary of the piece that martin_casado and I published on the Cost of Cloud, which felt pretty heretical at the time...

a16z.com/the-cost-of-cl…

Wayve is likely the new world leader in autonomous driving. Made in Europe.

Not if we get there first 😉

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Amen. When I interviewed at Bell Labs at the end of graduate school, I was asked to prepare a 45 min talk that took me 90 min to deliver -- thanks to all the interrupting questions and debate that ensued. It was fantastic! It meant that they cared, and they pushed me in…

This video is a first look at Lingo-2, an AI simultaneously chatting and autonomously driving through busy central London. This is not a LLM strapped to our driving AI, rather an AI model jointly trained on vision, language and action. 💬🚗

'Will AI boil the oceans? On the contrary, it can and should be harnessed to speed the green transition' bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

They can also be huge instruments of soft power. Building and launching an AI tutor could be the modern day equivalent of the BBC World Service or British Council

Great article from Andrew Dunn about AI in biotech.

@ginkgo is opening up our platform to help!

Lab Data as a Service = RLHF (ie reinforcement learning you want in biotech is lab data)

DNA database = Common Crawl (ie billions of DNA “sentences” for unsupervised learning)

Tony Blair on New-New-Labour: it has to be tech-progressive

Neo-progressivism is tech-progressive!